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A friend of mine is learning his 12th and 13th languages right now; he'd probably call bunk on you're last paragraph. Or, rather, it is a lot easier to learn e
by ErrantX 17y ago
A friend of mine is learning his 12th and 13th languages right now; he'd probably call bunk on you're last paragraph.
Or, rather, it is a lot easier to learn extra languages. But 90 days is not really possible if you want to learn the language to any useful degree. Certainly picking up Japanese would be hard in 90 days if all you had was romance languages.
(note; there is a subset case of this where you can pick up a language that quickly by living in the country and being forced to learn it)
- DrJokepu 17y agoYes, for "human" languages, it is probably more than 90 days. More like a year or two. (Learning a second language well can easily take 6-7 years.) I meant 90 days for programming languages. In my experience with foreign languages, first you struggle for a while and one day it unexpectedly "kicks in", suddenly you're able to comfortably use the language albeit not perfectly yet while the week before you was struggling to form simpler non-trivial sentences. Depending on your experience with foreign languages and the time you spend on learning the language, this can take from half a year to several years.